2004 Boston Red Sox
from Championship Stories Hosted by Steve Marantz
It’s Saturday, July 24, 2004. Boston's Red Sox are 52 and 44, second in the AL East, 9 1/2 games behind the first-place Yankees. The Sox are loaded with talent, but so far they've lacked a spark. The night before, at Fenway Park, the Yankees won, 8 to 7. It’s starting to look like 2004 will be another season without a championship. The 86thth since 1918 when the Sox won their last World Series. The 85th season since they sold Babe Ruth to the Yankees for $100,000. When they fell under the Curse of the Bambino. But wait. Before the game there’s a band on the field: The Dropkick Murphys. The Dropkicks cut loose with a punk Irish baseball song called "Tessie." So what happens? A bench-clearing brawl, that's what. And Bill Mueller's two-run walk-off home run gives the Sox an 11-10 win. At the time nobody credits the turning point of the season -- and Red Sox history -- to "Tessie." But in hindsight, all these years later, how could you not?
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In 2004, the Boston Red Sox were freed from 86 years of frustration with the help of a punk Irish baseball song called "Tessie". She was more than a song. She was a reincarnation.
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